In 2020, Bea Cordelia sued the city for violating her First Amendment right to freedom of expression by forcing her to wear pasties. Issues arose about whether authorities could fairly apply laws based on binary gender to nonconforming people. Would police enforce the ordinance against a transgender woman who is legally female but whose chest is flat? Or a transgender man who is legally male but whose breasts have not been reduced or removed? The law was found to be discriminatory, Cordelia won the case, and Chicago removed its nipple prohibition.
